An international team of astronomers has spotted the farthest known gravitational lens and, as Albert Einstein predicted, it is a galaxy that deflects and intensifies the light of a much further object.
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When a massive power outage struck southern California in the 1990s, Los Angeles residents reportedly called 911 to express alarm about strange clouds hovering overhead; they were seeing the Milky Way for the first time.
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The density of Saturn is so low that if you were to put it in a giant glass of water it would float.
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NASA invented baby food as we know it today.
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If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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